What have you produced towards these learning outcomes? What other resources do you have to help you with these outcomes?
Reflection
How far are you towards meeting these outcomes?
What went well?
What could have been better?
Targets
What do you need to do to achieve these outcomes?
What are your next steps?
Follow up
What have you done to follow up these targets?
What is the evidence of this?
1. Characteristics of living organisms
Core • List and describe the characteristics of living organisms • Define the terms: • nutrition as taking in of nutrients which are organic substances and mineral ions, containing raw materials or energy for growth and tissue repair, absorbing and assimilating them • excretion as removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism (chemical reactions in cells including respiration) and substances in excess of requirements • respiration as the chemical reactions that break down nutrient molecules in living cells to release energy • sensitivity as the ability to detect or sense changes in the environment (stimuli) and to make responses • reproduction as the processes that make more of the same kind of organism • growth as a permanent increase in size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or both • movement as an action by an organism or part of an organism causing a change of position or place
2. Classification and diversity of living organisms
2.1 Concept and use of a classificatory system Core • Define and describe the binomial system of naming species as a system in which the scientific name of an organism is made up of two parts showing the genus and species • List the main features of the following vertebrates: bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
Supplement • Know that there are other classification systems e.g. cladistics (based on RNA/ DNA sequencing data) • List the main features used in the classification of the following groups: viruses, bacteria and fungi, and their adaptation to the environment, as appropriate
2.2 Adaptations of organisms to their environment
2.2 Adaptations of organisms to their environment (to be illustrated by examples wherever possible) Core • List the main features used in the classification of the following groups: flowering plants (monocotyledons and eudicotyledons (dicotyledons)), arthropods (insects, crustaceans, arachnids and myriapods), annelids, nematodes and molluscs
3. Simple keys
Core • Use simple dichotomous keys based on easily identifiable features
Resources
What have you produced towards these learning outcomes? What other resources do you have to help you with these outcomes?Reflection
How far are you towards meeting these outcomes?
What went well?
What could have been better?Targets
What do you need to do to achieve these outcomes?
What are your next steps?Follow up
What have you done to follow up these targets?
What is the evidence of this?• List and describe the characteristics of living organisms
• Define the terms:
• nutrition as taking in of nutrients which are organic
substances and mineral ions, containing raw
materials or energy for growth and tissue repair,
absorbing and assimilating them
• excretion as removal from organisms of toxic
materials, the waste products of metabolism
(chemical reactions in cells including respiration)
and substances in excess of requirements
• respiration as the chemical reactions that break
down nutrient molecules in living cells to release
energy
• sensitivity as the ability to detect or sense changes
in the environment (stimuli) and to make responses
• reproduction as the processes that make more of
the same kind of organism
• growth as a permanent increase in size and dry
mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or
both
• movement as an action by an organism or part of
an organism causing a change of position or place
Core
• Define and describe the binomial system of naming
species as a system in which the scientific name of an
organism is made up of two parts showing the genus
and species
• List the main features of the following vertebrates:
bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
• Know that there are other classification
systems e.g. cladistics (based on RNA/
DNA sequencing data)
• List the main features used in the
classification of the following groups:
viruses, bacteria and fungi, and their
adaptation to the environment, as
appropriate
(to be illustrated by examples wherever possible)
Core
• List the main features used in the classification of the
following groups: flowering plants (monocotyledons
and eudicotyledons (dicotyledons)), arthropods (insects,
crustaceans, arachnids and myriapods), annelids,
nematodes and molluscs
• Use simple dichotomous keys based on easily
identifiable features